Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41580534.1000709@redux.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:19:00 +0100 From: John Beranek <john AT redux DOT org DOT uk> Organization: John AT Home User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange cron problem References: <4157FBE6 DOT 4090706 AT redux DOT org DOT uk> <4157FD37 DOT 3020108 AT redux DOT org DOT uk> <41580005 DOT 138ECCEC AT dessent DOT net> In-Reply-To: <41580005.138ECCEC@dessent.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Dessent wrote: > John Beranek wrote: > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >># DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >># (/tmp/crontab.3144 installed on Mon Sep 27 12:06:29 2004) >># (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) >>#* * * * * echo foo >>7 0,12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/update_cygwin_mirror > > > Looks like you've got one too many '*', so that the command that cron is > trying to run is actually whatever happens to be the first filename in > the current directory. Argh, all I can say is "Doh!". Thanks, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/